Guilds and Groups (general)

Shorah b'shemtee, or "Peace to everyone", as we like to say as a greeting in the cavern!

Are you a new explorer? Do you want to know more about the restoration of D'ni? Or maybe you're interested in the various groups, and people of the cavern? Well, here's your chance!

A team sponsored by the various Guilds and groups, with special permission from the DRC, are presenting a special info session for new visitors and explorers just arriving to D'ni for the first time. If you're not a new explorer, don't fret...everyone is welcome to attend the discussion...and perhaps run into some old friends!

Funding is still being arranged to make this a monthly event, so for now, this third Info Session will depart from Kirel on Saturday, July 2nd at approximately 18:00 KI time, several hours after the monthly All Guilds Meeting. (That's CET: 02:00 am / EST: 8:00 pm / PST: 05:00 pm, for those not quite in sync with D'ni time keeping, yet!) Particpants will then be linked to Ae'gura via a special linking process. A designated Messenger will be on hand to direct new explorers with any questions about this process.

Once arriving in the city, the session will begin within few minutes while people are Linked in. If you can't make it this time due to the late start time, not to worry...There will be another earlier session sometime within the near future! The next one is tenatvely planned for the same Saturday as the rescheduled AGM on August 13th, due to the yearly Mysterium the weekend before. More info will be forcoming in the near future...Please check back for more details soon! Read more

The Guild of Writers has done it again! They have released the latest version of Korman, the most up-to-date plugin for exporting Ages to any and all versions of URU. While it took longer then they were intending, it also means there are quite a few additions with 0.04, which include: Read more

Much to talk about in the cavern these days. With Obductionjust over the horizon, there's certainly no lack of activity in the Myst/URU community! As such, this month's All Guilds Meeting had a few interesting bits of information.

Of course, we have our usual raw and cleansed chatlogs courtesy of Korov'ev, plus a handy summary of what was discussed.

Korman

Hoikas was first to the stage to mention that work on version 4 of Korman, the Guild of Writers' latest Age-building plugin for Blender, was coming along nicely. The biggest addition will be sounds along with a few other goodies. There will be a full report on the update when it releases.

Things are evidently not the same without moderator Korov’ev – in his absence, guest moderator Christian Walther led one of the shorter All Guilds Meetings in history. The raw and cleansed chatlogs are attached below, and here is a summary:

Minkata Shard administrator rarified gave a quick update on his plans to tackle the database issues that plague the shard. He also mentioned that the day after the meeting, May 8th, marks the 10th anniversary of the Myst Online forum, which was opened by Cyan as one in a series of events leading up to the opening of the second, Gametap-sponsored iteration of Myst Online: URU Live and closing of Untìl Uru. Read more

It has been awhile since we've heard from them, but the latest version of The Open Cave's MOUL-based shard is now online! Changes include:

Garrison Wall Revamped

Removed player manipulation possibility from KI commands

/autoshout is now default behavior

KI lag reduction

Smoother animations

Other minor code fixes

On future updates, shard admin Mystler had this to say:

Let me use this occasion to say a few words about my current involvement in TOC. It has been some time since the last update and, let me be perfectly honest, I don't think the number of update will increase anytime soon. My motivation to work on new URU stuff is currently very low and there are other projects and things I prefer working on, in my free time. Of course I am still regularly checking the forums and PMs, to assure everything is working as good as possible, but, I don't want to get hopes up that I will get around to pushing new content updates.

To get the latest update, simply log into your TOC client and let it download. If you haven't yet tried The Open Cave MOUL shard, you can read here on how to install it and click here to create an account. Note that there is also a PotS version, but it requires a separate install.